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Originally posted by gretschviking1967:
Here is most of the set list. I am sure that I am missing a few tunes.
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From the setlist that my wife Susan wrote down I can say gretschviking1967 that your list includes all 27 songs performed at New Brunswick. but i have to say that your list has an inaccurate running order.
I am 100 % sure of this because the first half I memorised the songs using a "Number Rhyming System" and recalled the list for Susan to write down during the intermission. she then wrote down the second half.
OK so just what is the "Number Rhyming System":- it is a useful and simple word/picture association system where you initially allocate and memorise a simple keyword or concept to each number in a list or sequence of objects starting at 1-Bun 2-shoe etc then picture something exagerated or absurd that is then associated with that number and its rhyming link, Later merely thinking of the keyword brings back the actual item to be recalled.in this case
1 was a hamburger bun filled with mouthwatering cotton wool!!
2 shoe is what you would be wearing for walking on a carefree highway
3-tree rhymes with sea
4 door "close that door!!
5 hive was interesting because before the auditorium doors opened I had been talking to an usher wearing a number of gold pins/broaches, including a beehive and bee reminding me of the beautiful 3000 year old gold bee pendant found on the Greek island of Crete that I have seen in Heraklion Museum
so it was easy to recall
5 14 Karat Gold
you can get creative for example
6-sticks
To an engineer a "stick" is a slide rule so
6 is the song about a fool who had to stand on a stool because he couldn't come to terms with a slide rule hence:-
6 In My Fashion
7-heaven made me think ah yes "heaven" starts with an "H" as does "history"
Through which was Passing an emminent Painter!!
I also have today noticed that Wayne Francis has already posted the setlist from New Brunswick at:-
http://www.lightfoot.ca/060803.htm
However from my own setlist I can say that Wayne's listing whilst certainly listing the correct 27 songs they are shown in a sequence that is considerably different to the true listing as is gretschviking1967's.
Wayne has told me that he has a network or something of fans (or possibly "insiders") who send him setlists but I do wonder how his informant could have got the sequence so badly wrong on this occasion
For the record therefore the correct listing should be:-
1 Cotton Jenny
2 Carefree Highway
3 Sea of Tranquility
4 Never Too Close
5 14 Karat Gold
6 In my fashion
7 A Painter Passing Though
medley
8 Spanish Moss/
9 Shadows
10 Blackberry Wine
11 The Watchman's Gone
medley
12 Ribbon Of Darkness
13 Sundown
14 The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
intermission
15 Sit Down Young Stranger
16 Minstrel Of The Dawn
17 Clouds Of Loneliness.
18 Let It Ride
19 Rainy Day People
20 Waiting For You (with not a word of introduction)
but this a song I find is increasingly more appealing when heard live compared to hearing it on the album
21 Beautiful
22 If You Could Read My Mind
23 Canadian Railroad Trilogy
24 Baby Step Back
25 Bitter Green
26 Old Dan's Record
Encore
27 Early Morning Rain
I have nothing to add other than it was the customary polished performance.
Note the use of Spanish Moss as the lead song in a medley
Gord also uses it for a medley with either Don Quixote or Ghosts Of Cape Horn
similarly Ribbon Of Darkness is on ocasion the lead into the "Wreck"
but at New Brunswick it led into Sundown (surely sung in reverse order!!) (Think about it)
John Fowles
[ August 08, 2006, 10:40: Message edited by: johnfowles ]